Curriculum expectation: NS1.10 explore different Canadian coins, using coin manipulatives (e.g., role-play the purchasing of items at the store at the dramatic play centre; determine which coins will purchase more – a loonie or a quarter) | |
Data Management |   |
Number Sense: Counting
Patterning
Sorting
Activities to try at home:
Learning to sort objects is an important skill. You can help your child develop sorting skills at home by having him or her help you sort laundry, groceries, dishes, or toys.
After you and your child have sorted laundry, groceries, dishes, or any
other objects in your home, talk about how the objects were sorted.
Also discuss the importance of sorting objects. For example, it is easier
to find dishes in cupboards when they are sorted.
ABOUT THE MATH
Sorting activities provide opportunities for students to describe objects, identify their
attributes, see relationships between them, and organize them into categories. Young
students initially sort objects according to obvious attributes (e.g., colour) and may not
recognize other, less obvious attributes. They sort objects into “are” and “are not”
groups, for example, “All of these objects are green. All of these objects are not green.”
With experience, students learn that the same set of objects can be sorted in different
ways, and begin to sort and classify objects using less obvious attributes (e.g., size,
texture, mass).
Characteristics of Student Learning
In general, students in Kindergarten:
• describe similarities and differences between objects;
• sort objects using obvious attributes (e.g., colour, size, shape). Students might
sort objects into two groups – those that have a certain attribute, and those
that do not (e.g., creating a group of white buttons and a group of buttons
that are not white), or they might sort objects according to a general criterion,
such as colour (e.g., one group of white buttons, one group of black buttons,
and one group of red buttons);
• begin to explore ways to sort objects using less obvious attributes (e.g., texture,
mass, thickness);
• explain their rules for sorting objects;
